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Lets Meet at Sunset

sand flea - 20-9-2011 at 05:29 PM

See you there
Saturday Sept. 24
High tide 11:30 so it will be a great afternoon session.
Weather will be awesome, so will the wind.

macboy - 20-9-2011 at 05:42 PM

......if I leave at 8:00pm Friday night........plus 16-17 hours..........I'd be there roughly noon/1:00 Saturday.........play for five hours or so, sleep in the car at the approach and hit the road for home by 11am Sunday morning so I'd be home in plenty of time for the wife to get up to go to work.

Sono#@%$#!un....it almost makes it sound feasible :lol:

macboy - 20-9-2011 at 05:43 PM

(I've been known to drive to Vancouver for sushi.....it's not that much of a stretch.)

bigkid - 21-9-2011 at 06:30 AM

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Originally posted by macboy
(I've been known to drive to Vancouver for sushi.....it's not that much of a stretch.)

Almost as bad as a road trip to nocando's for some oregano.:wee:

sand flea - 21-9-2011 at 05:46 PM

Macboy-
I was thinking you could stay a few days at my place in Portland and then you could go to the gorge too! Anytime my friend.

I plan to use the Del Ray beach access and will buggy there if there is good wind, if not I will drive to Sunset.

sand flea - 7-10-2011 at 05:45 PM

Going to Sunset!
Saturday Oct. 8
Low tide around 10:00am

Could be a long wait for another decent day.
CSA, Monty, Chris H, Macboy and all the Locals

sunset-Jim - 8-10-2011 at 06:43 AM

My chart shows low tide not till about 5pm. If the weather holds I'll try to make it out.

lamrith - 8-10-2011 at 08:17 AM

At what point in the tides does the beach typically become "usable" down there in general?

Low tide point is Max beach, but at what point between low and high is the "cut off" or usable point? 1/2 way or just a few hours each side of low?

sunset-Jim - 8-10-2011 at 12:19 PM

It depends a lot on wind direction. The more that it is off from being straight onshore, the more beach ya need. So if it is straight on, especially this time of year, you can go all day. A NW or SW I usually consider anything below a +4 or 5 pretty ride-able. Bigfoots help a lot though. As far as "at what point between low and high is the "cut off" or usable point?", the high's and low's vary a lot between the cycle so it is hard to answer that one. Half-way is usually pretty safe.

vwbrian - 8-10-2011 at 05:06 PM

Hows the approach at sunset?

sunset-Jim - 8-10-2011 at 08:46 PM

The entire beach is fine now. Jeff was even able to confidently use the approach in his big MH.

jellis - 9-10-2011 at 09:27 AM

It was a great day at the beach and one of our last before winter takes it grip. The beach was in great shape after the past few storms and the tide gave us a look at how big it can really get.